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...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
...When he took his circus to Washington in 1928 Mr. Ringling called at the White House, casually mentioned to President Coolidge that he had a sea elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later...
...contrasting influences of North & South. Sailors on a southbound cargo ship jumped about in brisk, energetic fashion until plump sirens with fishlike feet got aboard, started playing guitars and wriggling their hips. Officers forgot to give orders then, left the bridge. In a tropical port even the luxuriant, overgrown pineapples and coconut trees abandoned themselves to jogging amiably about. But back north again the dancing took on new, hectic energy. Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part in this materialistic orgy...
...that they always want to be known as men", said Sidney Mann, light opera and specialty singer at the Mayfair in a recent interview. "I see them here at the Mayfair acting as though they were practically grandparents already, and yet they are not really any more than just overgrown kids. I believe in keeping young as long as possible, and it positively pains me to see a lot of people still young trying to be something which they will regret being a little later...
...such a lusty wheezing and blowing as Mr. March makes you have never heard since you played locomotive on the nursery floor. Mr. Hyde is conceived here as a playfully sensuous figure rather than as a really sinister one. He bounds about in his new-found freedom like an overgrown brownie or a slightly cretinous baboon. Stevenson made it clear that "Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil...